blueteamnovel Chapter 71: You're feeding them top-grade [Golden Spirit Cage]?!
Chapter 71: You're feeding them top-grade [Golden Spirit Cage]?!
In Jiang Qiao's nursery, a spiritual plant shaped like a lotus bud stands gracefully in a white jade pot. Its stem is green and straight, and at the top is a cluster of pale yellow lotus buds that wrap the stamens inside, exuding the unique fragrance of its flowering season.
Through the gaps in the petals, a small clump of "Powder-Gathering Fairies" could be seen buzzing and dancing wildly, rising and falling erratically like choking smoke, sometimes gradually turning blue, sometimes yellow, and sometimes degenerating into white, appearing extremely sickly.
"【Golden Lotus】is a hybrid created by my father by grafting 【Wood Healing Fruit】onto the rare level 1 spiritual plant 【Golden Lotus】. Because both the father and mother plants are mutated, it is a hybrid of mutations and has two species, so it has very high requirements for pollination by 【Powder-Gathering Fairy】."
"Then......"
Jiang Qiao stared longingly at the lifeless insects in her palm, then poured them into the incubator with a sigh.
"I followed my father's training notes and fed them specific fruits to improve their pollination ability with the Golden Lotus, but they still died today when I tried to pollinate them."
The "Powder-Gathering Fairy" Cultivation Notes are analogous to spirit seed recipes. Different cultivation notes produce "Powder-Gathering Fairies" with different uses. Some are good at pollinating wood-type spirit plants, while others are good at pollinating metals.
Normally, the common [Powder-Gathering Fairy] is used for hybridization of common spiritual plants of the same lineage or even the same type, such as hybridization of [Wooden Flower] with A trait and [Wooden Flower] with B trait. This is the route most trainees take, and the value of their training notes lies mainly in the accumulation of experience.
The rare [Powder-Gathering Fairy] is born from the hybridization of rare spiritual plants. Each cultivation notebook is bound to the path of cultivation and is an inseparable part of the spiritual plant master's inheritance, which can also be called a secret transmission.
Among them, the most difficult to replicate at the trainee level is the precious mutation hybridization. Mutation refers to both the father and mother being mutated results, and many trainees have never produced a single mutated result, making it something that is only aspirational and unattainable.
Wu Shan had mentioned these things in class. The cultivation plan that Director Jiang arranged for Jiang Qiao was undoubtedly difficult, but Jiang Qiu noticed the panel that popped up on the corpse of the [Powder-Gathering Fairy] and paused for a moment—
【Powder-Gathering Fairy (Rare): During its cultivation, it feeds on specific spiritual fruits and has a good affinity with the wood element, but a relatively weak affinity with the metal element. When it tries to co-pollinate the "Golden Spirit Lotus," it is rejected and dies due to the pressure from the internal metal spiritual energy.】
He asked, "Is your [Powder-Gathering Fairy]'s metallic affinity insufficient?"
"Yes... um?" Jiang Qiao looked up abruptly, stunned.
The entire training process was fraught with variables. After studying it for a long time, I only managed to deduce three or four suspicious directions. It was only after asking Wu Shan that I confirmed this was the reason. However, Wu Shan was quite perceptive and asked, "How did you figure that out?"
"Our training methods for the [Powder-Gathering Fairies] are similar, and I've encountered similar problems before," Jiang Qiu casually mentioned.
"Huh? You've already pollinated so quickly!" Jiang Qiao's chubby face widened in surprise. "How did you manage that? Did you successfully hybridize? Can you lend me some fairy spirits?!"
"..." Jiang Qiu pondered for a moment, "I'm preparing to pollinate, so we haven't hybridized yet, but I can lend you some later."
The [Powder-Gathering Fairy] can reproduce in groups. Although they are rare, they are not scarce in the hands of breeders. Moreover, this was originally given to me by Director Jiang, so I can't refuse to lend him even a few adult insects.
Upon hearing that she could borrow it, Jiang Qiao gave a gentle hum and picked up [Golden Lotus], saying, "Then hurry up and pollinate it so I can borrow it. By the way, I'll also check how your cultivation is going and see if you've fallen behind schedule."
"Okay." Jiang Qiu nodded. She was supposed to pick the fourth-generation wood-element flowers and fruits, but since they wouldn't be needed until later, there was no need to rush. She would complete the hybridization first and help Jiang Qiao at the same time.
Soon, Jiang Qiu took her back to the second floor of his house, to a separate cultivation room. The room was kept tidy and spacious, with the rare nutrient soil piled up next door, so that the other party would not feel unbalanced and complain that he had tricked her.
However, at this moment, Jiang Qiao's gaze was fixed on the table in the center of the room. She leaned over to observe it, and with her chubby right index finger, she gently poked at the lone [Golden Spirit Cage], frowning, "Huh, isn't this the [Golden Spirit Cage]? Why is its production so low after a month..."
"That's because I'm researching a new superior formula," Jiang Qiu didn't explain further. With a click, she pushed open the incubator. "Didn't you want to borrow some fairies to take back? I'll lend you half after I finish pollinating them."
"Oh," Jiang Qiao muttered, turning her gaze away. She quickly peered casually into the incubator, her eyes widening as she blinked twice. "Hiss, you're feeding them top-grade [Golden Spirit Cage]?!"
"Yes." Jiang Qiu raised her finger, and a tuft of bright yellow [Powder Fairy] emerged from the spiral shell of the [Golden Spirit Cage], like gold dust being sprinkled into the air, and then swirling around her finger in a continuous and orderly fashion, as if giving orders.
"But among level 1 spiritual plants, the metal element is the most aggressive, and the [Golden Spirit Cage] is a rare mutated spiritual plant, as dangerous as a bomb. How can these fairies eat it without any problems?" Jiang Qiao asked in surprise.
When she fed the fairy the metal spirit fruit, she initially selected low-grade spirit fruit and personally squatted beside her, always ready to mobilize water-attribute spiritual energy to "store essence," for fear that she might accidentally choke to death.
However, the fairy in Jiang Qiu's family not only eats the top-grade [Golden Spirit Cage] fruit, but it is also cultivated separately from her body and placed in a cultivation box to eat on its own.
And so, they still seem to have a "strong and well-equipped army"!
Suddenly, an idea flashed through Jiang Qiao's mind like a thunderbolt. She frowned, exclaiming in astonishment, "Could it be that your two [Golden Spirit Cages] possess a property that makes them easily consumed by insects? And that their affinity for metallic spiritual energy can increase with each layer!"
"almost."
Jiang Qiao stood there, her eyes glazed over. Her fairy had died because it lacked affinity for metal and was rejected when pollinating the Golden Lotus. But if she had eaten the convenient spiritual fruit regularly, the hybridization process would have been much smoother.
In fact, the cultivation plan arranged by Father also included many corresponding superior recipes, such as making the fruits of [Golden Edge Flower] and [Golden Lotus] edible, but in fact, the boost they brought was not enough.
Among them, the Golden Edge Flower is just an ordinary spiritual plant, but the Golden Lotus is a rare spiritual plant that has mutated. The Powder-Gathering Fairy gradually gains the corresponding metal affinity by eating their fruits.
However, it still couldn't control the first-generation mutated hybrid [Golden Lotus], and was ultimately rejected and crushed to death.
But Jiang Qiu's trained [Powder-Gathering Fairy]...
"Huh?!" Jiang Qiao suddenly noticed several bright yellow fairies floating over, circling around the [Golden Spirit Lotus] in her arms, like bees in a hive, harmoniously coexisting. "My [Golden Spirit Lotus]'s instability hasn't changed?"
Her eyes lit up, her gaze sharp as if she had unearthed a golden treasure. "That means it might not be rejected when it pollinates the [Golden Lotus]!"